From 2009 through early 2013, Jon Favreau served as the Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama, a role he also played for the President during the 2008 presidential campaign. Favreau began writing with President Obama in 2005, when he started his first term as a U.S. Senator, and has had a hand in crafting nearly every major speech that the President delivered over the last 8 years.

Featured in TIME magazine as one of the “ 100 Most Influential People in the World ” and in GQ's “ 50 Most Powerful People in D.C.”, Favreau is also a columnist for The Daily Beast and a public speaker with the Washington Speakers Bureau. He taught a weekly seminar as a Spring 2013 visiting fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

Nell Scovell is a television and magazine writer, producer and director.

She co-wrote the book "Lean In" with Sheryl Sandberg. She has been a contributor to Vanity Fair and the New York Times for over twenty years and was one of the original staff writers for Spy Magazine.

She is the creator of the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, which aired on ABC and The WB from 1996 until 2003. She most recently worked on The Muppets for ABC.